Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst missioner in Cambridgeshire — after a five years ' spell in Oxford he began to — read seriously and painstakingly — and , though untutored and without the benefit of lectures , he gained a degree in Classics at Cambridge University . |
| 2 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |
| 3 | Eight years later , to be precise , she was greeted by screaming crowds and the flash of a hundred photographers ' cameras . |
| 4 | Tell him to build a tower out of a hundred elephants ' tusks . " |
| 5 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 6 | If only five per cent of car journeys were made by bus or train instead it would save over a quarter of a million tonnes ' worth of pollutant each year . |
| 7 | The dissolution of the monasteries by the French in 1809 was the violent culmination of a twenty years ' campaign . |
| 8 | and er , like Christmas , erm , they have these things on the telly when there 's about , every , every night there 's like a fifteen minutes ' programme , just before the close-down , of like , B B C One . |
| 9 | The justiciar , Geoffrey FitzPeter , who had taken the cross , was absolved as he was dying in return for a 2000 marks ' subsidy for the Holy Land . |
| 10 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 11 | … must nine warriors , having nine spears , with a ten furrows ' Width between them and him , assail him and at the same time let fly at him . |
| 12 | Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden . |
| 13 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 14 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 15 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 16 | In a hundred years ' time your Fuselis will look as old as they are , not as old as they should be . |
| 17 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 18 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |